Garment-fastener.



No. 637,524. Patented Nov. 2|, 1899. D. P. PARKER.

GARMENT FASTENER.

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CARRIE PILLSBURY PARKER, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

GARMENT-FASTENER.

$PECIFIGATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,524, datedNovember 21, 1899.

Application filed July 6 1899, Serial No. 722,910. (No model.)

To a. whom it Duty concern:

Be it known that I, CARRIE PILLSBURY PAR- KER, of Minneapolis, Hennepincounty, Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in garment-fasteners designed tobe used for fastening or securing together the meeting or overlappingedges of a garment or for fastening one garment to another; and theobjects I have in View are, first, to provide a garmentfastener capableof general use, although'especially adapted for underwear,corset-waists, and the plackets of skirts, and, second, to provide afastener for these purposes which is invisible when the garments orparts of the garment are fastened together, which may readily andquickly be fastened or unfastened, which is adapted to be quickly andefiectually secured upon garments formed of any material, and which whenin use is so thin and compact that it prevents any bunch or clumsyappearance in the garment.

The invention consists generally in the construction and combinationhereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a perspective view of a portion of a garment having my fastenerapplied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detailed section of a portion of a garmenthaving my fastener applied thereto, the two parts being separated. Fig.3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the parts together and thegarment fastened. Fig. 4: is a perspective of one part of the fastener.Fig. 5 is a detail of the other part of the fastener. Fig. 6 is a detailof the securing-ring.

In the drawings, 2 2 represent the meeting or overlapping parts of agarment that are to be secured together. the meeting surfaces is a thin,preferably metallic, plate 3, which is preferably circular in form andis secured to the surface of the garment by any suitable means. I preferto provide upon the opposite side of the cloth upon which the plate 3 isplaced a ring 4 of substantially the same diameter as the plate 3 and toprovide the plate 3 with a series of prongs or projections 5, which passthrough Arranged upon one of the cloth and are turned down over thisring, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, thereby securing the plate firmly inposition. In place of this, however, the plate may be provided withholes and may be sewed or otherwise suitably secured upon the cloth ormaterial of the garment. Upon the opposite part of the garment issecured a plate 6, having formed therein a keyhole-slot 7, this slotbeing formed by cutting a tongue 8 in the plate 6 and depressing saidtongue below the back side of the plate 6. This tongue, when the deviceis in use, lies, as will be seen, next to or against the cloth of thegarment upon which the plate 6 is secured. The tongue near its point isprovided with a small projection 9. The plate 6 is secured to thegarment preferably by means of a ring 4 and projections 5 simi-' lar tothose upon the plate 3, although, if preferred, the plate 6 may be sewedor otherwise suitably secured to the garment. Secured centrally upon theplate 3 is a headed stud or projection 10, having a depression or recess11 in the central portion of the top of the head. The plates 3 and 6 aresecured in proper position upon the portions of the garment that are tobe united, the rings 4: preferably coming in contact between the innerand outer layers of cloth, so that said rings are completely andeffectually concealed. The small portion of the slot 7 is toward theedge of the garment. Any number of these fasteners may be used upon thesame garment, arranged'at suitable distances apart. When it is desiredto secure the parts of the garment together or to secure two garmentstogether with these fasteners, the head of the stud 10 is brought incontact with the larger portion of the slot 7 in the plate 6, and thehead of said stud is slid down over the inclined rear wall of said slotuntil the head is brought under the walls of the narrower the garmentare secured together by this fastoner, the fastener itself is entirelyinvisible.

The stud being short and the plates being thin, there will be no bunchor wad in the garment, and the garments or parts of the garment will becompletely and securely fastened together. hen it is desired to separatethe garments or the two parts of the garment, the operation that is gonethrough with in securing the parts together is reversed. The stud isslid out of the small part of the slot into, through, and out of thelarge part of the slot, and the two plates may then be separated.

It will be noted that the wall at the base of the tongue is inclinedfrom the plane of the front surface of the plate toward the point of thetongue. This inclined surface forms a guide by means of which when it isdesired to fasten the parts together the stud may be guided into properposition in the narrow part of the slot. ably formed of spring metal,and when the stud on the opposing plate has been brought into the narrowpart of the slot the projection on the tongue springs into the recess inthe head of the stud, thereby locking the stud in position, so that itcannot work out of the narrow part of the slot while the garment is inuse.

The fastener is particularly adapted for underwear, corsets, theplackets of shirts, the meeting edges of waists, for securing childrensgarments together, and it may also be used for gloves, boots, and otherpurposes. Vhen in use, the ,two smooth plates, which are preferably ofthe same diameter, lie one against the other, preventing any wear uponthe cloth or material of the garment, and the neck of the stud beingshort the two plates are held closely. and firmly together. The platehaving the stud is preferably circular and the stud is preferablycentrally arranged thereon. This permits this plate to be secured in anyposition upon the garment,while the plate having the slot should besecured with the narrow part of the slot pointing in the direction ofthe line of pull upon the fastener, so that any pull on the part of thefastener resulting from the wear of the garment The tongue itself ispreferwill only tend to draw the stud more firmly into position in theslot.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Iatent 1. A garment-fastener comprising two plates ofsubstantially the same size adapted to be secured upon the opposing,meeting surfaces of a garment or other article and covered by thegarment material, one of said plates being provided with a short-neckedstud having a head with a depression therein, and the other plate beingprovided with a keyhole-slot with a spring-tongue cut out of the plateand extending back of said slot and provided with a projection adaptedto engage the recess in the head of said stud, holding the two platesclosely and firmly together, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the meeting surfaces of a garment, of theplates of substantially the same size secured upon said surfaces andcovered, one of said plates being provided with a stud having a recessedhead and the other being provided with a keyholeslot and a spring-tonguecut out of the plate and lying between said plate and the material ofthe garment, said tongue being provided with a projection adapted toengage the recess in said head, for the purpose set forth.

The combination, with a garment and its meeting surfaces, of the platessecured to and covered by the material forming the meeting surfaces ofsaid garment, one of said plates being provided with a stud having adepression in its head and the other being provided with a keyhole-slothaving a spring-tongue cutout of the plate and arranged between saidplate and the material of the garment and provided with a projectionadapted to engage the depression in the head of said stud, for thepurpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of July,1899.

CARRIE PILLSBURY PARKER.

In presence of A. 0. PAUL, A. F. HOLMES.

